Chapter VIII · Chapter 8

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From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

the sterilization of an animal

From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

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From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

in or near a particular place or position

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

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From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

in or to or toward a former location

From this reading I could say somewhat more of the delicacy of this and some other of his satires, but it might turn to his prejudice if it were carried back to France.

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading This I think, my lord, to be the most beautiful and most noble kind of satire.

delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration

From this reading This I think, my lord, to be the most beautiful and most noble kind of satire.

plural of “bee” — any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

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From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

showing who or what does the action

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

inflected form of “carry” — move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body

From this reading I could say somewhat more of the delicacy of this and some other of his satires, but it might turn to his prejudice if it were carried back to France.

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

the mountain range in Caucasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea that forms part of the traditional border between Europe and Asia

From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

plural of “comparison” — the act of examining resemblances

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests

From this reading I could say somewhat more of the delicacy of this and some other of his satires, but it might turn to his prejudice if it were carried back to France.

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

(Greek mythology) founder of Troy

From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies

From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance

From this reading I could say somewhat more of the delicacy of this and some other of his satires, but it might turn to his prejudice if it were carried back to France.

give pleasure to or be pleasing to

From this reading Here is the majesty of the heroic finely mixed with the venom of the other, and raising the delight, which otherwise would be flat and vulgar, by the sublimity of the expression.

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From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

a distinguished female operatic singer; a female operatic star

From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

plural of “empire” — the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

half the width of an em

From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

third-person singular of “ennoble” — confer dignity or honor upon

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

the feelings expressed on a person's face

From this reading Here is the majesty of the heroic finely mixed with the venom of the other, and raising the delight, which otherwise would be flat and vulgar, by the sublimity of the expression.

in tiny pieces

From this reading Here is the majesty of the heroic finely mixed with the venom of the other, and raising the delight, which otherwise would be flat and vulgar, by the sublimity of the expression.

be agreeable or acceptable to

From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another

From this reading Here is the majesty of the heroic finely mixed with the venom of the other, and raising the delight, which otherwise would be flat and vulgar, by the sublimity of the expression.

plural of “flight” — a formation of aircraft in flight

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

(Roman mythology) the goddess of fortune and good luck; counterpart of Greek Tyche

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

following the third position; number four in a countable series

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe

From this reading I could say somewhat more of the delicacy of this and some other of his satires, but it might turn to his prejudice if it were carried back to France.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

a general kind of something

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

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From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is

From this reading Here is the majesty of the heroic finely mixed with the venom of the other, and raising the delight, which otherwise would be flat and vulgar, by the sublimity of the expression.

very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale)

From this reading Here is the majesty of the heroic finely mixed with the venom of the other, and raising the delight, which otherwise would be flat and vulgar, by the sublimity of the expression.

the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading This I think, my lord, to be the most beautiful and most noble kind of satire.

on condition that; in the event that

From this reading I could say somewhat more of the delicacy of this and some other of his satires, but it might turn to his prejudice if it were carried back to France.

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From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading Here is the majesty of the heroic finely mixed with the venom of the other, and raising the delight, which otherwise would be flat and vulgar, by the sublimity of the expression.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

conformity or harmony

From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior

From this reading This I think, my lord, to be the most beautiful and most noble kind of satire.

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth

From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

the quality of being high or lofty

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God

From this reading This I think, my lord, to be the most beautiful and most noble kind of satire.

a position of inferior status; low in station or rank or fortune or estimation

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

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From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

impressiveness in scale or proportion

From this reading Here is the majesty of the heroic finely mixed with the venom of the other, and raising the delight, which otherwise would be flat and vulgar, by the sublimity of the expression.

French painter whose work influenced the impressionists (1832-1883)

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

an artist of consummate skill

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

used to say something is possible but not certain

From this reading I could say somewhat more of the delicacy of this and some other of his satires, but it might turn to his prejudice if it were carried back to France.

consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds

From this reading Here is the majesty of the heroic finely mixed with the venom of the other, and raising the delight, which otherwise would be flat and vulgar, by the sublimity of the expression.

plural of “monarch” — a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree

From this reading I could say somewhat more of the delicacy of this and some other of his satires, but it might turn to his prejudice if it were carried back to France.

(sociology) the conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

used to form the superlative

From this reading This I think, my lord, to be the most beautiful and most noble kind of satire.

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From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

belonging to the person speaking

From this reading This I think, my lord, to be the most beautiful and most noble kind of satire.

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

a colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts

From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

an acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants; necrosis of intestinal tissue may follow

From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

impressive in appearance

From this reading This I think, my lord, to be the most beautiful and most noble kind of satire.

negation of a word or group of words

From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

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From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied

From this reading Here is the majesty of the heroic finely mixed with the venom of the other, and raising the delight, which otherwise would be flat and vulgar, by the sublimity of the expression.

in other respects or ways

From this reading Here is the majesty of the heroic finely mixed with the venom of the other, and raising the delight, which otherwise would be flat and vulgar, by the sublimity of the expression.

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

the capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce

From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

for each

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

everlastingly; for all time

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

a geometric element that has position but no extension

From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation

From this reading I could say somewhat more of the delicacy of this and some other of his satires, but it might turn to his prejudice if it were carried back to France.

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From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

following in order to overtake or capture or as accompaniment to such pursuit

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

plural of “raise” — the amount a salary is increased

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

the event of something being raised upward

From this reading Here is the majesty of the heroic finely mixed with the venom of the other, and raising the delight, which otherwise would be flat and vulgar, by the sublimity of the expression.

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From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

Nazi militia created by Hitler in 1921 that helped him to power but was eclipsed by the SS after 1943

From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

Identical; not different.

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng

From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

witty language used to convey insults or scorn

From this reading This I think, my lord, to be the most beautiful and most noble kind of satire.

plural of “satire” — witty language used to convey insults or scorn

From this reading I could say somewhat more of the delicacy of this and some other of his satires, but it might turn to his prejudice if it were carried back to France.

express in words

From this reading I could say somewhat more of the delicacy of this and some other of his satires, but it might turn to his prejudice if it were carried back to France.

only a very short time before

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

a general conscious awareness

From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity

From this reading I could say somewhat more of the delicacy of this and some other of his satires, but it might turn to his prejudice if it were carried back to France.

to a small degree or extent

From this reading I could say somewhat more of the delicacy of this and some other of his satires, but it might turn to his prejudice if it were carried back to France.

a male human offspring

From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

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From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

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From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

the subject matter of a conversation or discussion

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

nobility in thought or feeling or style

From this reading Here is the majesty of the heroic finely mixed with the venom of the other, and raising the delight, which otherwise would be flat and vulgar, by the sublimity of the expression.

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

a hard grey lustrous metallic element that is highly resistant to corrosion; occurs in niobite and fergusonite and tantalite

From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

a brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur; it is used in alloys and as a semiconductor; occurs mainly as tellurides in ores of copper and nickel and silver and gold

From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

judge or regard; look upon; judge

From this reading This I think, my lord, to be the most beautiful and most noble kind of satire.

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading This I think, my lord, to be the most beautiful and most noble kind of satire.

(used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result

From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

a United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds

From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

third-person singular of “translate” — restate (words) from one language into another language

From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense

From this reading I could say somewhat more of the delicacy of this and some other of his satires, but it might turn to his prejudice if it were carried back to France.

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

toxin secreted by animals; secreted by certain snakes and poisonous insects (e.g., spiders and scorpions)

From this reading Here is the majesty of the heroic finely mixed with the venom of the other, and raising the delight, which otherwise would be flat and vulgar, by the sublimity of the expression.

a Roman poet; author of the epic poem “Aeneid” (70-19 BC)

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

lacking refinement or cultivation or taste

From this reading Here is the majesty of the heroic finely mixed with the venom of the other, and raising the delight, which otherwise would be flat and vulgar, by the sublimity of the expression.

the speaker together with one or more other people

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

the past form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading I could say somewhat more of the delicacy of this and some other of his satires, but it might turn to his prejudice if it were carried back to France.

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

in the company of; together with

From this reading Here is the majesty of the heroic finely mixed with the venom of the other, and raising the delight, which otherwise would be flat and vulgar, by the sublimity of the expression.

the words that are spoken

From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past

From this reading Here is the majesty of the heroic finely mixed with the venom of the other, and raising the delight, which otherwise would be flat and vulgar, by the sublimity of the expression.

inclined to yield to argument or influence or control

From this reading And as Virgil in his fourth Georgic of the bees, perpetually raises the lowness of his subject by the loftiness of his words, and ennobles it by comparisons drawn from empires and from monarchs— “_Admiranda tibi levium spectacula rerum_, _Magnanimosque duces_, _totiusque ordine gentis_ _Mores et studia_, _et populos_, _et prælia dicam_;” and again— “_At genus immortale manet_, _multosque per annos_ _Stat fortuna domûs_, _et avi numerantur avorum_;” we see Boileau pursuing him in the same flights, and scarcely yielding to his master.

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”

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From this reading “_Nec tibi diva parens_, _generis nec Dardanus auctor_, _Perfide_; _sed duris genuit te cautibus horrens_ _Caucasus_, _Hyrrcanæque admôrunt ubera tigres_:” which he thus translates, keeping to the words, but altering the sense:— “_Non_, _ton père à Paris_, _ne fut point boulanger_: _Et tu n’es point du sang de Gervais_, _l’horloger_; _Ta mère ne fut point la maîtresse d’un coche_; _Caucase dans ses flancs te forma d’une roché_; _Une tigresse affreuse_, _en quelque antre écarté_, _Te fit_, _avec son lait_, _succer sa cruauté_.”